"If we can remove them from the main ED and put them in environment where everyone is masked and everyone can be protected, it's safer for them and certainly safer for the staff," said Terry Burger, hospital director of infection control.

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The mobile surge tent is set up outside the emergency department.

Officials say a similar measure was taken during the H1N1 flu a few years ago.